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Buy NowThe Padilla Signature 1932 began as one of Ernesto Padilla's most personal cigars. The number is 1932, the birth year of his father, Heberto Padilla, the celebrated Cuban poet whose writing and imprisonment made him an important figure in the intellectual opposition to Castro's government.
Ernesto developed the original cigar with José 'Pepín' Garcia at the tiny El Rey de los Habanos factory in Little Havana, during the period when both men's names were just beginning to carry serious weight in American cigar shops. The original 1932 was a Nicaraguan puro, and its Lancero eventually landed at No.
23 on Cigar Aficionado's Top 25 of 2007. In other words, 1932 was not invented as another number to put on a cigar box. It was a son putting his father's birth year on what would become one of the defining cigars of his career. The 1932 Maduro takes that old blend into darker territory.
There have been several versions of the 1932 over the years, so the name requires a little caution. Padilla has changed factories and tobacco sources since the original Pepín-made Miami cigars, and Maduro, Oscuro, San Andrés, and more recent Broadleaf interpretations have all appeared.
Current Padilla material describes a 1932 Maduro Lancero as using the established 1932 filler blend with a different wrapper priming, while another recent interpretation places a Mexican San Andrés Maduro wrapper over the classic 1932 blend. The useful thread running through all of them is the same: Padilla has repeatedly returned to the tobacco architecture of his most important cigar and asked what happens when a darker, sweeter wrapper is laid over it.
That makes the Maduro less a separate idea than another chapter in a cigar Ernesto Padilla has been revisiting for nearly two decades.
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